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Environment

BELGRADE: Heavy snow paralyzed much of Europe for yet another day, cutting off mountain villages, sparking avalanches like one that crashed into a Swiss hotel and killing at least four more people Friday.
Workers at the Hotel Saentis in eastern Switzerland spent Friday shoveling out hip-deep sno...

PERSPECTIVES

KATHMANDU: Mountains are generally considered barriers that isolate and divide. Their formidable physicality presents challenges for development and the delivery of goods and services. Some mountain ranges mark international borders.
However, if we zoom out we also begin to see a certain unit...

Education

BOSTON: The latest crop of US Rhodes scholars has more women than any other single class, and almost half of this year’s recipients of the prestigious scholarship to Oxford University in England are either immigrants or first-generation Americans, the Rhodes Trust announced Sunday.
Among th...

Oddities

LAKIYA: On Hadra al-Faqira’s wedding anniversary, just weeks after she gave birth to a daughter, her husband walked out and took a second wife.
She hasn’t seen him since he moved down the road in their dusty Bedouin town and started a new family, with seven more children.
“I can’t ...

Travel

BANGKOK: Thailand approved marijuana for medical use and research on Tuesday, the first legalisation of the drug in a region with some of the world's strictest drug laws.
The junta-appointed parliament in Thailand, a country which until the 1930s had a tradition of using marijuana to relieve ...

Automobile

KATHMANDU: The 13th edition of Nepal's premier automobile exhibition, NADA Auto Show 2018, which kicked-off on September 11 will conclude tomorrow.
The NADA Auto Show is regarded as a festival for automobile dealers as more than 30 per cent of annual sales of vehicles that auto dealers record is ...